DITA Storm Desktop Released (Wed, 25 Jun 2008)

Inmedius have released DITA Storm Desktop, a standalone XML editing solution based on the DITA Storm Web-based DITA Editor. Desktop allows the user to create and publish DITA documents in a self-contained environment on a single workstation. Installed locally on the end user’s computer, files are accessed, edited, saved and published from local or network drives, regardless of Internet connectivity. With WYSIWYG editing capabilities, authors with little or no DITA or XML knowledge can create valid, structured content. Desktop runs on Mac OS, Windows (including Vista) and Linux operating systems, and costs USD474.

Mimic News from MadCap (Wed, 25 Jun 2008)

MadCap Software announced the availability of Mimic 2.0. MadCap's native XML software simulation application adds new online and print output options, as well as support for MadCap Lingo to facilitate translation. New output formats from Mimic 2.0 include Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe AIR, PDF and XPS.

DITA Open Platform Project (Mon, 23 Jun 2008)

Claude Vedovini has initiated the DITA Open Platform project. The goal of this project is to provide the DITA community with a free and easy-to-deploy DITA oriented production platform. It is targeted at small companies or teams that do not need a complete CMS solution.